[fpc-devel] Unicode and UTF8String

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said:

(nsstring)

> The advantage when using such a type is that you also only need to  
> convert it (internally, hidden from the user) on demand or when some  
> helper routine requires it (such as e.g. case-insensitive  
> comparisons). Otherwise, no conversion whatsoever is necessary.

Do they have some way to indicate that a procedure/method only supports a
certain encoding? Or do you have to manually force the encoding in that way?

I prefer a declarative way to solve this.